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Looking for inexpensive or free things to do in Denver/Boulder? Want to sample local stores, restaurants, & attractions without breaking the bank? Mile High Cheapskates Claire Walter and Laura Daily show you how to get the best for less. Want to get in touch? Email us at: info@milehighonthecheap.com
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Tiny Tots Can Go “Inside The Orchestra”

Tiny Tots Inside the Orchestra has been introducing little ones age 6 and under to orchestral music for a quarter of a century. Performances take place February 1 to 13 at venues throughout metro Denver (from The Wildlife Experience and El Jebel Shrine to Temple Sinai, Temple Emanuel and the huge Boettcher Concert Hall). [...]

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BOGO Tickets for Europa Galante, 1/29

Formed in 1990, Europa Galante was formed by Fabio Biondi to share his interpretation of music from baroque and classical eras on original instruments. The ensemble, including world-famous mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, has toured Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, South American and now the U.S. The show is based on their 2011 album Vivaldi Pyrotechnics, which was nominated [...]

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Sing Free, Sing Now! in Boulder

Learn to sing in 2012. Sing Free, Sing Now! is a FREE series of classes for men interesting in learning how to sing. Classes begin Tuesday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Boulder Center for Spiritual Living (note that the chorus or workshops are in no way affiliated with any religious organization). The [...]

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Buy 2, Get 2 Free Tickets to “String of Pearls”

Avenue Theater kicks off its 25th anniversary with “String of Pearls” a play that opens up the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls. While the pearls are stolen, bought, bestowed, unstrung and nearly lost, four actresses play 27 characters in this deeply moving [...]

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RMPBS Members Get BOGO Entry to Clyfford Still Museum

Rocky Mountain PBS members can buy two adult admission tickets for the price of one to the new Clyfford Still Museum on one of four upcoming Tuesdays (January 24, January 31, February 7 and February 14). If you don’t already belong to RMPBS, join now. Adult museum admission is $10, and basic RMPBS membership [...]

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Stock Show Stub Nets 25% Off Johnny Cash Tribute

Hang onto your National Western Stock Show ticket stub for 25% off the Denver Center Theatre Company production of “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash,” playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts from March 23 to May 13. To get the discount, which does not apply to prior sales and may [...]

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Free Jazz at the Mercury Cafe

Mercury Cafe has lined up some local jazz bands for FREE performances this month and next. Here’s the schedule: Tuesday, January 17, 7:30 p.m. Trust Jazz; Thursday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. Tristen Brooke; Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. Danette Hallowell & Old Soulz; Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 p.m. Trust Jazz; Tuesday, February 28, 9:30 [...]

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Free Community Cinema Showings of Important Films

Rocky Mountain PBS sponsors FREE Community Cinema screenings of historically and culturally important but unheralded films in large Colorado cities and small towns. The next is “Daisy Bates: The First Lady of Little Rock.” Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the [...]

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MHOTC Offer: 25% Off Boulder Phil ‘French Impressions’ Tix

MHOTC readers get 25% off tickets to Boulder Philharmonic’s “French Impressions” concert on January 14 at 7:30 p.m.. The program features Satie’s familiar “Gymnopédies,” Howard Hanson’s cinematic “Romantic” Symphony, Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G” and Gershwin’s ever-popular “An American in Paris” that evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s. Benjamin [...]

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Take Part in Barefoot Improv Dance in Boulder

The Barefoot Improvisational Dance Association calls eclectic, creative Boulder home to their Tuesday evening “freestyle, barefoot dance where the unexpected is expected,” as the organizers describe it. The improv event tonight, December 27 and every Tuesday from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. is drug- and alcohol-free, and welcomes “all ages, genders, ethnicities, orientations, abilities, species.” Tonight’s DJ [...]

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Denver Christkindlmarkt

In the cities Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland, vendors set up stalls in the plaza around the cathedral for the annual Christkindlmarkt to sell charming gift items, candles, sweets, ornaments and all manner of holiday goodies. Denver’s 2011 Christkindl Market takes place downtown in Skyline Park (Arapahoe between 16th and 18th), from November 25 [...]

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Low-Cost “A Christmas Carol” in Parker

Parker’s “Literature to Life” series continues its run with the return of Charles Dickens classic holiday tale A Christmas Carol. The project illuminates classical literature by animating treasured stories through stage performance. Incorporating a lighter touch to the well known story, this production boasts a local cast and features larger than life stage puppets [...]

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Arvada Center – 3 for $99 Theater Deal

We love great deals you can customize. And the Arvada Center is doing just that with its 3 for $99 Theater Deal. Create your own mini-theater package by choosing from any 3 individual productions in the remaining 2011-12 season, including “The 1940′s Radio Hour”, “Legally Blonde: The Musical”, “The Importance of Being Earnest” and more. (Some [...]

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Boulder Book Store Evening for Book Clubs

The Boulder Book Store‘s “Between the Covers” event is geared to book clubs making their winter reading selections. The book store shares its favorite picks in fiction, nonfiction, new and old on Monday, November 14 at 7 p.m. In addition to great book conversation, enjoy refreshments and gifts. Entry vouchers are $5 per person and include seating, [...]

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“Fairy Tales, Games and Make-Believe” Concert for Kids

Here’s the perfect way for the little ones to embrace classical music and the workings of a real orchestra. ”Fairy Tales, Games and Make-Believe” come to life on Saturday, November 12 at 3 p.m. at Augustana Lutheran Church (5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver) and Sunday, November 13 at 3 p.m. at Abiding Hope Lutheran Church [...]

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